Save the date! The 2010 PROMISE SSI is coming to UMBC’s campus, Saturday, August 21! Details coming soon! The SSI is designed to connect new, incoming graduate students with more advanced continuing students.

PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP -- sponsored by the National Science Foundation

This program is sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) to support underrepresented graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. PROMISE is proud to support all graduate students from all backgrounds and in all disciplines.

The PROMISE Success Seminars serve the graduate students of UMBC, the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland Baltimore. This site will host listings of our latest seminars and workshops. Thank you for visiting.

PROMISE Sites

PROMISE Dissertation House
The Dissertation House project provides a series of retreats, workshops, and seminars that move students from the “All-but-Dissertation” stage to their planned goal, the Ph.D.!